The strange sad war revolving

Description:

Walt Whitman's prolific Reconstruction project has remained the most uncultivated decade in Whitman studies for over a century. This first book-length analysis points the way for a needed recovery of Whitman's 1865-1876 publications by considering them in the context of the legislative discourse on black emancipation and its stormy aftermath. While Whitman's Union ideology is virtually uncontested, the perceived absence of attention to race relations in his postwar texts has recently become a source of curiosity and a target of criticism. By yoking together literary and legislative discourses, this book provides a rhetorical pathway for the recovery of the emancipatory significance of Whitman's works of the Reconstruction decade.

subjects: African Americans,  African Americans in literature,  American War poetry,  Citizenship,  History,  History and criticism,  Literature and society,  Literature and the war,  Political and social views,  Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877),  United States Civil War, 1861-1865,  War poetry, American,  Whitman, walt, 1819-1892,  United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, literature and the war,  African americans, history,  Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) in literature,  Reconstruction

People: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Places: United States

Times: 1863-1877,  19th century,  Civil War, 1861-1865